Wont buy it myself until it's been patched and/or proven. Might end up using it at work depending on where I end up working, but won't be getting it for my personal machines any time soon.
Infarction
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I'm going to buy it on February 1st :)
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I am getting a couple of copies for our IT department to have a play with early next year, i played around with the RC1 (i think) beta and it was ok, buggy but nice to see something thats been a while in the making!!
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I will buy it in about a year. By then M$ will have at least one service pack out for it.
Ancient Dragon
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I, like dani will be buying it when it comes out. I am sorry I just can't deal with not getting it, it looks so shiney and new. No, I know there are gonna be bugs but it hopeful won't effect the general user to much and I really need a personal webserver for my pc.
roryt
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No, I'll get it included in the package as a Microsoft Partner.
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I'll buy it when and if I buy a new computer to run Windows before a replacement becomes available.
As I don't know when and if either of those conditions will be met I can't at the moment make any predictions one way or the other.
Or to put it bluntly: I don't know :)
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I'm not going to buy Vista just so that I can dual-boot (or rather, triple-boot) my MacBook with Windows. I wouldn't mind tinkering around with it, although I'd certainly not want it as my main operating system.
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Eventually, when I buy a new PC. I am quite happy with XP at this point. (My first PC was second-hand loaded with Win95-- I was very happy to upgrade to WIN98 then :) . When I bought another PC with XP-- what more could I need?
Many people mock Microsoft. This I understand, I guess :confused:; I see Microsoft for what it is: a massive corporation that has just happened to change the face of the planet via software, providing our society with what I have dreamed of since the late 1970's-- Star Wars-level technology! :cheesy:
Without MS, I'm not sure if I would be posting this message right now.
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mattyd
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im not - in the UK its £375 to preorder ultimate full edition - thats the same price as Windows Server 2003 is
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roryt
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i need the full edition as i have XP home and dont want to upgrade to a sucky version
XP Home ed. users can only get Home & Home Basic editions, MCE edition users can get Premnium as well and XP PRO users can get ultimnate and buisness
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why would you want to think about buying the ultimate edition for home use, unless of course you have a huge network server at home.
Ancient Dragon
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Well, because it has all of the features of the business and home premium packages, which includes an iis. And of course every one has to have the best. Why does it matter if we don;t have a huge network server?
roryt
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i need the full edition as i have XP home and dont want to upgrade to a sucky version
you already use a sucky version so upgrading to another sucky version should not be a problem. But I agree the basic version is probably not adequate for software development.
Ancient Dragon
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To revise my first post in this thread, I will certainly be using it when I start working in 6 months, but I'm not sure when I'll be upgrading my personal system (which barely meets some of the min reqs currently)
Infarction
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To revise my first post in this thread, I will certainly be using it when I start working in 6 months,
I wouldn't be too sure about that. The company I work for does not upgade for about two years after a new release.
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